Summary

Have 9 plus years of experience in managing business processes and implementing the financial systems specialized in SAP FICO modules for various clients under different industry domains- Business consulting, Business Development-SAP, IT Consulting services, Pharmaceutical, Oil and Gas and retail industries. Understands the Scope of the projects- drive projects, and meet deadlines, motivated to develop successful solutions. Participated in 3 full Lifecycle Implementation of SAP R/3 and major Production Support, and enhancements project experiences.
Have inherent people skills and a very quick Lerner. Possess excellent presentation skills and a very good team player.
Understands the financial processes of the organizations- Sales and Marketing Finance, Operational Finance, Record to report, Tax, Capital and Asset management, Purchase to pay, Order to cash, Management Reporting.

Education and Honors

Master of Business Administration in International Business
Bachelor of Science

SAP FI/CO Skills

Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year, Posting period, Company code, Business areas, Field status groups, functional areas, sales and purchase tax, Group Currency and Hard Currency Account.

FI-GL

Account groups, GL Master Records, sample accounts, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, inter-company automatic account posting, sales/purchase tax assignment, number ranges, document types, tolerance groups and Business Area accounting. New GL, Parallel Ledger, Document Splitting.

FI-AR

Customer Groups, Customer Master Data, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, AR information system, Lockbox Process and Closing operations.

FI-AP

Vendor Groups, Vendor Master Data, Automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, closing procedures, Creation of Special G/L and linking with reconciliation accounts.

FI-Asset Accounting

Asset Class, Asset Master Record, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Keys, Multilevel methods, Acquisition, Work in Progress, Retirement, Multiple Depreciation area, Parallel Currencies.

Financial Statements

Financial Closing of G/L, Assignment of G/L accounts in FSV, GR/IR accounts, financial statement creation

Bank Accounting

House Banks, bank accounts, Manual Bank statement, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox Processing, Free form of payment, Payment Media and Automatic Payment Program.

Treasury

Cash Concentration; Cash forecasting, planning level and planning groups. Data flow from logistics modules.

CO

Configuring controlling areas, cost centre hierarchy, currency and valuation profile.

Cost Centre Accounting

Creating Cost centre and cost centre groups. Activity types and statistical keys, Reposting, Distribution, Assessment and Overheads.

Profit Centre Accounting

Profit Centre, Revenue elements.

Product Costing

Defining origin groups, costing sheet with calculation bases, percentage overhead, and quantity based overhead and credits, cost component structure.

Profitability Analysis

Characteristics, Value Fields, Characteristics deviation, settlement of variances, flow of billing documents, Legal and Profit Centre valuation and COPA Planning.

Report Painter

Report Painter report for Profit Centre, Cost Centre and Profitability Analysis.

Professional Experience

Confidential, Bridgeview, IL Nov 2011 – Feb 2012
SAP FI Lead
SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, is one of the largest industrial conglomerates in Latin America based in Sao Paolo, Brazil. It operates in various sectors such as finance, energy, steel, pulp, paper, cement, construction and many other varied businesses.
Votorantim recently acquired a cement company in Chicago area called prairie Materials. The main scope of the project is merging Prairie’s SAP system into Votorantim’s global template.

Responsibilities

• Performed AS IS study and prepared TO BE Process documents for FI Module.
• Created flowcharts and got it approved from Key users, and created Business Blue Print for the TO BE processes.
• Created Functional Specification Documents for creation of the SAP Sebrix interface for Brazillian Taxation.
• Customized and Configured the FI Global Settings like Company Code, Company Code Currency, Tax Procedures, Fiscal Year settings & posting periods, Document Types and Number Ranges.
• Customized and Configured General Ledger Account Groups, G/L Accounts, Chart of Accounts, Tolerance Groups & retained earnings account in New GL
• In Accounts payable and receivables (SAP-AP and SAP-AR), Designed Procure–to–Payprocess, Order–to–cashcycles and involved in the integration areas of SAP FI–MM, and SAP FI–SD.
• Customized and Configured Vendor Account Groups and Vendor Master Records (with combined effort of MM consultant).
• Made settings for automatic procedures in Payment Programs and for interest calculation on account balances/line items and foreign exchange calculation.
• Designed House Banks, and other settings for bank transactions.
• In Treasury, developed Lockbox interfaces with the Bank and Positive Payee Interface with Bank of America.
• Trouble shoot issues relating to the overall payment process including the F110 Payment, the In house cash, the F110 Payment and transfer to Citibank
• Customized and Configured Customer Account Groups, Customer Master Records (with combined effort of SD consultant).
• Configured OBYC and VKOA as part of MM & SD integration with FI.
• Credit Management Configuration with credit control areas and maintained Credit Limits for customers and cash receipts.
• Tested the document flow from MM to FI and SD to FI.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program and Dunning Program.
• Configured Cash Journal.
• In Asset Accounting, created TAX and AMT Depreciation Keys and in Inflation Accounting adjusted Asset Values.
• Created BPP’s and trained End Users.
• Involved in Unit Testing and Integration Testing.

Confidential,Holtsville, NY Dec 2010 – Nov 2011
SAP FICO Team Lead
SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, is a data communications and telecommunications equipment provider that succeeded Motorola Inc. following the spin-off of the mobile phones division into Motorola Mobility in 2011. The company houses the Enterprise Mobility Solutions division and Networks division of the former Motorola. It was the second largest division (based on revenue) in the former Motorola.
Motorola acquired Symbol Technologies in 2007, which is a manufacturer and worldwide supplier of mobile data capture and delivery equipment. Symbol Technologies originally used to do their business in Oracle where as Motorola is a SAP business, as a result of the merge, the scope of this project is the transformation from Oracle to SAP.

Responsibilities

• Mapped Oracle fields into SAP fields for all the Conversions (AR Receipts and Invoices and AP Invoices) as well as assisted in Customer Master, Vendor Master and Bank Conversion.
• Helped in implementing all the existing Oracle Interfaces into SAP.
• Created the Functional Specification Documents.
• In New GL, defined ledgers and currencies maintained fiscal year variant and defined Posting Period Variant.
• Activated Document Splitting.
• In Treasury Risk Management, defined calculation indicators, portfolio and Traders, field selection, leading currency, number ranges for payment requests, payment blocking indicators for accounting, and reason for reversal and valuation areas.
• Worked directly with Bank of America for mapping of the Bank interfaces and its development.
• Assisted in creating Sebrix interface for Sales and Use Tax.
• In Asset Accounting, defined Depreciation areas.
• Configured derivation strategy and valuation strategy in Costing Based Profitability Analysis COPA.
• Mapped SD condition types to value fields for transferring SD Billing Data to COPA.
• Maintained Assessment Cycles and the relationship to Profitability segments for transferring overhead costs to COPA.
• Configured settings for COPA Planning like planning framework, planning methods andmaintaining versions.
• Worked extensively on product cost planning by configuring material cost estimate with quantitystructure, cost component split; cost component structure, BOM and route settings.
• Defined costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control transfer control, and reference variants for defining costing variants in product costing CO-PC.
• Analyzed Production orders, CO Production orders and Product cost collectors as Cost Objects in Cost Object controlling.
• Configured settings for preliminary and simultaneous costing of a Production order, and performed various period-end closing activities like process cost allocation, revaluation of activities at
  actual prices, overhead calculation, WIP, Variance calculation and settlement.
• Maintained settings for calculating work in process (WIP) – results analysis keys, line id’s, results analysis versions, cost elements for WIP calculation, valuation method, assignment, update and also defined posting rules for settling work in process.
• Defined variance keys, valuation variants, order type dependent parameters, target cost versions for calculating variance.
• Maintained settings for settlement of variances in production order – settlement profile and PA transfer structure for transferring to COPA.
• Maintained settings for requirement classes, requirement types for analyzing product cost by sales order.
• Maintained settings for actual costing like activated valuation areas for material ledger, assigned currency variants to material ledger types, assigned material ledger types to valuation area and
  configured dynamic price changes.
• Created cost centers, cost elements, standard hierarchies, activity types and statistical key figures and defined Assessment, Distribution cycles in Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA.
• Defined activity types, plan prices for activity types and worked on direct activity allocations and indirect activity allocations.
• Maintained settings for actual postings in Profit center accounting PCA by setting control parameters, document types, assignment of revenue elements to profit centers, choosing additional
  balance sheet and P/L accounts for assigning to profit centers.
• Maintained profit center master data, statistical key figures and assignment of account objects to profit centers in Profit Center Accounting CO- PCA.
• Maintained allocation structures, settlement cost elements, source structure, PA settlement structure, settlement profiles and settings for automatic generation of settlement rules for
  settlement of Internal order
• Configured Internal Order by maintaining order types, screen layouts, order groups, status management, settlement rules, settlement profile and planning profile.
• Generated reports using Report painter and performed integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Provided end user training using infopak for new configuration.

Confidential,Chesterbrook, PA Jan 2010 – Oct 2010
Senior SAP FICO Consultant
SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential,PA based Drug Wholesale Company that was formed by the merger of Bergen Bruswig and Amerisource in 2001. They provide drug distribution and related services designed to reduce cost and improve patient outcomes, distribute a line of brand name and generic pharmaceuticals, over the counter (OTC) healthcare products and supplies and equipments to a wide variety of healthcare providers located throughout the US.
The main scope of the project is to design the Functional Design Documents, configurations, and all phases of Testing.

Responsibilities

• Created blueprints and Designed cross team WRICEFS
• Migrated data into SAP from Legacy systems like Metastorm, Star System with the help of EDI IDOC and LSMW.
• Worked on Asset Conversion from Legacy System.
• In Risk Management, defined Amortization procedure, one step price valuation procedure, security valuation procedure, price valuation procedure for forward exchange transaction, position management procedure.
• Designed Key Price Indexes from SAP ECC to Hyperion
• Mapped Tax Codes from Legacy System to SAP according to each countries requirement using Vertex
• Responsible for maintaining of master data like cost center, cost element groups, statistical key figures and statistical key figure groups in Cost Center Accounting.
• Created actual and plan allocation cycles before the month end as needed by the business users. Allocation cycles were documented based on sender cost center and cost element.
• Created validation rules.
• Configured Actual Costing in CO
• Configured New GL
• Configured Profit Center Accounting as a part of New GL.
• In Product Costing, material cost estimate done by quantity structure by defining costing types, valuation variants.
• In Internal Orders, responsible for maintaining internal orders, internal order groups, model orders and order types.
• Developed enhancement functional specification for global internal orders.
• In Cost element accounting, created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost elements groups.
• In Cost Center Accounting, created cost center and standard hierarchies
• In Profitability Analysis, configured costing based Profitability Analysis, created operating concern, characteristics and value fields.
• Configured PA transfer structure for transferring values from FI and CO.
• Customized settlement profile, allocation structure and PA transfer structures to facilitate order settlement to CO-PA.
• Configured Product Cost by Order in Product Costing.
• In Product Costing, followed Activity Based Costing (ABC) to estimate the standard cost and calculate the actual cost using actual values
• Configured Costing Variant, Costing Sheet, Valuation variant, Order Type, and overhead cost elements in Product Costing.
• In Asset Accounting, performed requirement analysis and functional matching for asset accounting, purchase cycle and plant maintenance.
• Configured the Fixed Assets, Chart of Depreciation, asset class, depreciation area, fiscal year variant, number range, and substitution rule in the fixed asset master records.
• In Treasury, configured the whole In House Cash Application
• Scheduled all Batch Jobs after the system went Live for FPM (Financial Process Management) Team.
• Created and Executed Test Cases for Unit Testing, Integration Testing, BSVT, Performance Testing in HP Quality Center
• Used ARIS to manage Business Processes
• Managed Defects for FPM Team in HPQC.
• Created Configuration Specification Documents (CSD)
• Created user defined reports through Report Writer and Report Painter.
• Involved in testing, cutover planning, and production support.
• Trained End Users and created training documents in Sharepoint.

Confidential, Houston, TX Apr 2009 – Nov 2009
SAP FI Consultant
Upgrade from 4.6 to ECC 6.0

Hewlett Packard is a technology corporation based in Palo Alto, CA. HP is the largest technology company in the world which operates in almost every country in the world. HP specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, storage, and networking hardware, software and services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise servers, related storage devices, as well as a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. Other product lines, includes electronic test equipment and systems, medical electronic equipment, solid-state components and instrumentation for chemical analysis.
The main scope of the assignment is the HP – EDS integration. I was involved in multiple projects in this assignment. The legal merge of both the corporation from the GL, IC, AP, and AR perspective for each of the countries were HP and EDS operates. Also the joint invoicing that will take place in the future for any HP – EDS services to their clients as a result of the integration and the upgrade from 4.6 to ECC 6.0.

Responsibilities

• Reviewed Mapping
• Migrated documents of EDS SAP boxes into HP SAP boxes using EDI IDOC’S.
• Upgraded Classic GL to New GL.
• Created and Maintained G/L Accounts in New GL.
• In New GL maintained a parallel ledger.
• Worked on existing EDS Company Code
• Currency converted into HP Company code’s Currency. (Mostly worked on European and Asian currency converted to USD.)
• Maintained Currency Conversion Tables.
• In Asset Accounting, created Asset Classes and intercompany Asset Transfer.
• In Asset Accounting, set up depreciation areas for all the EDS European company codes.
• In AP, created Vendors and Trading Partners and broadcasted Vendors in different SAP boxes.
• In AR, created Customers.
• In AR, worked on the Customer Tolerances, payment advices and the rationalization of the reason codes for the payment differences.
• Integrated FICO with MM and SD.
• In Treasury, configured Lockbox did Liquidity forecast, and Cash Management position.
• In Checks Management, maintained check lots and defined void reason codes.
• In Bank Accounting, created House Banks.
• In AP, defined Vendor Master Date and account groups.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for Company Codes in AP.
• Created Validations.
• Created Tolerance Groups.
• Created Intercompany Workflows.
• Assigned Users to Workflow and created Partner Profiles.
• Created Payment Terms.
• Created Number Ranges and Document Types.
• Mapped EDS Tax Codes to HP Tax Codes using Sebrix for countries like Brazil, Argentina, Venezuala.
• Validated Documents in Production.
• Maintained Documentation for all configurations in SharePoint
• Created Cost Centers.
• Reviewed and Fixed Idoc errors in XI.
• Migrated Legacy System to SAP using LSMW.
• All phases of testing has been done and tracked in HPQC.
• Created and Executed Test Cases in HPQC, tracked all Change Requests.
• Did System Integration Testing for all the Phases of the Merge
• Did User Acceptance Testing for all the Phases of Merge
• Did Regression Testing.
• Configured all the reports as per IFRS standards.
• Created Reports using Report Painter, Report Writer and Adhoc Reports.
• Post Go Live Support.
• Creates End User Training Documents in Sharepoint.

Confidential,Orlando, FL May 08 – Feb 09
Senior SAP FICO Consultant - Team Lead (Full Lifecycle Implementation)
SAP ECC R/3 6.0

Confidential,is a major global developer, manufacturer and marketer of advanced, pioneering consumer and professional medical diagnostic products
The position was of a Senior FI Consultant with major responsibility of implementing the Asset Accounting module, COPA and COPC module with daily production support activity mainly in GL, AP, AR and Bank Accounting.

Responsibilities

• Did the requirement-gathering meeting with the business for the creation of Asset Accounting blueprint as per IFRS standards.
• Created the blueprint for Asset Accounting Implementation.
• Defined chart of depreciation, various depreciation areas and depreciation keys required asset classes, number ranges, revaluation settings etc.
• Integrated Asset Accounting, structured and valuated Fixed Assets, created Asset master Involved in the designing of Asset Class, Charts of depreciation, inter-company asset Transfers and balance-carry forward jobs. Calculations/reporting and Year-end closing in fixed assets. Designed and configured Asset Accounting to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirements and Transfers.
• Conducted Unit, Regression, User and System Testing after the implementation and supported the client in post launch
• Session and also involved in providing training to end-users.
• In Risk Management, configured and tested Money Market, Foreign exchange and Securities.
• Upgraded classic GL into New GL by adding a parallel ledger and the automatic reconciliation with CO
• In Profitability Analysis, defined operating concern, characteristics, value fields, characteristics derivation, and valuation strategy.
• Created settlement profile and PA transfer structure for direct postings from FI/MM and variance settlement.
• Defined forms and variables, created profitability report using those forms.
• Using EDI IDOC migrated documents.
• In Product Costing configured the basic setting for Material Costing (like defining calculation bases, percentage overhead rates, costing sheets, overhead groups.)
• Configured Material Cost estimate with quantity structure by defining costing types, valuation variants, transfer strategy, costing variants.
• In AP, created House banks, payment configurations and maintained vendor master.
• In AR, configured Interest calculations, default account assignments and Credit Management.
• In Bank Accounting, created check lots and void reason codes.
• In Cash Management, activated cash management for company codes.
• In Checks Management, archived checks, renumbered checks and void checks.
• Filled GAPS in Contract Accounting Receivables and Payables (FICA, FSCD)
• Recognized revenues by FI and SD Integration.
• Configured Tax using Vertax for South American Countries like Brazil and Argentina.
• Configured the system for the creation of A/R invoices and posting of manual incoming Payments with difference and defined reason codes for payment differences and worked
  on writing off these differences to G/L accounts. Tolerance groups, credit management
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL Structure, and Posting Rules for automatic assignments.
• Did Lockbox Remittance Processing.
• Define multiple clearing accounts for the cash reporting.
• In GL, converted different currency into USD.
• Maintained Currency Conversion Tables.
• In Treasury configured Electronic Bank Statement.
• In Internal Orders, created overhead Orders and Accrual Orders.
• Implemented EC-CS (Consolidation), developed blueprint for business consolidation implementation, conducted process analysis to discover issues and requirement in the stage and mapped to features and functions to optimize solution design.
• Determined the best design to feed ECCS via the Special Purpose Ledger.
• Reviewed currency conversion requirement from US Dollars to Euros.
• Integrated with PP and PM.
• Created End User documents using On Demand/ UPK.